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      To The Editor Of The Monthly Repository.

      he knew that he must thereby incur the hatred of th § wicked , and still worse , the contempt of those who are accounted wise , but whose minds are in darkness . He

      was much connected In the labour of the Lord ' s vineyard , with those whom the world stiles Methodists . When the distressful circumstances of his family became known to this despised sect ,

      they beset themselves to relieve the widow and the fatherless , and very much by their exertions , about four thousand pounds have been quickly collected . Now , although this case and that of the

      poor orphans of Mrs . Standevens are not exactly similar , there is a very strong analogy between them * v But I forbear making any reflections , nor will I make an invidious contrast between the above noble subscription , and the

      To The Editor Of The Monthly Repository.

      fruit of the appeal to your readers during a whole month , as announced in your number for March , because I would not willingly ^ offend against that virtue so finely

      described by St . Paul , in 1 Cor . xiiu But let it be remembered , that however tender we » ought to be in judging one another , we cannot be too severe on ourselves .

      Happy should I be , if I might flatter myself that this letter would induce any of your readers to put in practice their professions , and improve their own virtue by benefiting jhe unfortunate orphans of

      Mrs , Standevens . I enclose my mite : * beseeching you to accept this letter in the same spirit of charity and goodwill as it is wri t * ten , I airij Sir , Your very humble servant ,

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      JOHN WESLEY ' S OPINION OF SERVETUS AND TIRMITST ,

      To The Editor Of The Monthly Repository.

      To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .

      City Road * Aprils , 1810 . . sir , The late John Wesley , with as ftiany real excellencies as most

      men of his age , was rather dexterous at controversial cutting and slujffti ng # His abhorrence of U nittfianism is notorious ; - and his cordial attachment to that mild

      and blessed u form of sound words / ' the Athanasian Creed , was , I believe , never questioned ; yet , when the cause of God , "

      ° r of Methodism , which , you know , is precisely the same thing , squired it , John could readily acknowled ge the wisdom and holiness , even of an Unitarian ! I

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      will give you an instance or two of this accommodating spirit of 6 C our late venerable / a ^ Aer . " Thomas Firmin , citizen of London , is well known to have been a zealous Unitarian . In one of

      the early volumes of the Armiman Magazine , Mr . Wesley has giveq an account of the life of this excellent man , who is there

      acknowledged as a true Christian * I have not the volume before me , or I would quote Mr . Wesley ' s words * I know , however , that I am cor'rect as to the fact . But I have a

      case now before me strongly in point . In the year , 1741 , Mr . Wesley published a second edition .

      * Five Pound * . £ »

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1810, page 231, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02051810/page/15/